ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why flamingo milk is pink.
Hollywood’s obsession with constructed languages started with The Lord of the Rings and continues in the latest Dune movie... more »
5 years old - Dad knows everything! 7 years old - Dad knows. 10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?! 12 years old - Dad doesn’t know. 14 years old - Dads gone crazy! 16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously. 18 years old - What does dad know?! 22 years old - Dads talking rubbish! 24 years old - I know more than dad! 26 years old - Dad seems to know some things after all. 30 years old - Think I should ask dad about this?! 40 years old - It’s amazing how dad went through all this! 45 years old - Dads been right all along. 50 years old - If dad was here, I could have learned a lot.
Neanderthals’ usage of complex adhesives reveals higher cognitive abilities, scientists discover New York University
MARK JUDGE: Dune: Part Two: The film conservatives have been waiting for?
*Dune 2*
From the get go it is far too self-consciously portentous, with nary a bit of humor to lighten it up. It feels more like an adaptation of memes from gaming than a cinematic version of a novel, much less a living, breathing movie. And exactly what is the moral stance we are supposed to hold on the war anyway? I love Hans Zimmer but his score is not in the emotional service of anything meaningful.
By objective standards the visuals are quite good, but in The Age of Sora they no longer seem so creatively cutting-edge either.
The crowd mostly seemed bored, and I saw a lot of people looking at the time on their phones. Was there any line from the movie that anyone is going to repeat?
In terms of expressing the power of cinema, or captivating the viewer with a sense of magic, I’ll take that Robert Bresson film about the donkey any day of the week.
If you read the major reviews carefully, a lot of them feel the same way, though understandably they don’t want to crush Hollywood’s future economic prospects in the bud.
New York Times – Why adults should read aloud to one another, and a few recommendations to get you started
The New York Times [no paywall]: “When my mother was 62 years old, she dusted off a clunky Cannondale with Mary Poppins handles and joined a bicycling group. She was recovering from heartbreak and had just moved to a new town. She had no background as an outdoor activity enthusiast: She did not camp or hike, had never, say, paddled a kayak.
But the bike group was made up of 60-, 70- and 80-year-olds. How hard could it be to tag along?…My mother joined that bike group. What was initially a distraction spun into a passion. She became a serious cyclist, the kind of serious who wore brightly colored bike shirts, used Lance Armstrong breathing techniques and planned group rides.
I rode my bike with my mother once; believe me, there is nothing more disheartening than being trash-talked by one’s mom as she huffs by you on a hill. Pedaling through her 70s, she explored steep mountain roads and new towns. She entered 100-mile races, changed flats and downed electrolytes on the go…”
What a Murdered Russian Dissident Can Teach Us About Moral Courage:
